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which had emerged in confinement. Mr. R. Adkin, a remarkable gynandroiis 

 specimen of Bomhyx qucrcus, with left antenna and wings ^ and ritjht antenna 

 and wings 9 , but of the c? colour, from the Capper collection. Mr. Newman, 

 a larva of Callimorpha dominula, black in colour without the yellow markings. 

 Mr. Andrews, two examples of the recently identified Dipteron, Hilara aeronetha, 

 from North Kent. Mr. St. Aubyn, photographs of Lepidoptera at rest. Mr. 

 Gough, a dwarf example of Celastrina argiolus. Messrs. Edwai'ds and Turner, 

 several species of Papilio from North America, of the machaon and glaucus 

 groujis. Mr. A. E. Gibbs gave an account of the arrangements for the S. E, 

 Union of Scientific Societies Congress at St. Albans in June. Mr. Main showed 

 a series of lantern slides illustrating his observations on the life-history of the 

 common myriapod, Lithohius forficatus. 



Thursday, May 11th. — The President in the Chair. 



Messrs. Harrison and Main oxhiliited a long series of Aplecta nehulosa and 

 its varieties, a lired series from rohsoni g and thompsoni ? which did not con- 

 form to the anticipated Mendelian proportions. 26 per cent, were grey, 42 per 

 cent, rohsoni, and 32 per cent, thompsoin, instead of 50 per cent, robsoni and 

 50 per cent, thompsoni. Messrs. R. Adkin, Harrison and Main, and L. W. 

 Newman, hybrids of Biston hirtaria and Nyssia zonaria. It was stated that ? s 

 had not yet been obtained in the cross £. hirtaria g and N. zonaria 9 • Mr. 

 Adkin read detailed notes on the characteristics of the liybrid specimens 

 shown hy liim. Mr. Gough, specimens of the arete form of Aphantopus hyper- 

 anthus from Kent and Surrey, together with intermediate and type forms. 



Thursday, May 25f/i.— Mr. R. Adkin, F.E.S., in the Chair. 



Mr. Hugh Main exhibited a living 9 scorpion received from the West 

 Indies, .with two young ones on its back, Avhere it was stated the parent 

 deposited them, and where they usually remained for two or three weeks. 

 Mr. W. West (Greenwich), called attention to the Society's collection of 

 Coleoptera, which had now been completely reset and cleaned, and to which 

 Messrs. Ashby and Ashdown had recently made numeroiis additions. Mr. H. 

 Moore, some Coleoptera received alive from the Orange Free State. Mr. R. 

 Adkin, a bred series of Nyssia zonaria reared from Wallasey, and called atten- 

 tion to the " laying over " of niimoroiis pupte for two winters and to the much 

 paler general coloration than usual of a number of the specimens. Mr. Blen- 

 karn, the Coleopteron, Myrmedonia funesta, and the ant it cohabited with, 

 Formica fuliginosa, from Sandown. — Hy. J. Turner, Hon. Secretary. 



Entomological Society of London : Wednesday, May 3rd, 1911. — The 

 Rev. F. D. MoRiCE, M.A., President, in the Chair. 



The President announced the death of two Fellows of the Society, the Rev. 

 Canon Cruttwell and Mr. W. A. RoUason. 



The President informed the Society that the authorities of the Science 

 Museum had persuaded the Government to allow tliem to take a portion of the 

 land belonging to the Natural History Museum at South Kensington, for the 

 pui'pose of erecting new biiildings of tlieir own, thereby precluding much-needed 



